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Home Front: WoT
DHS Knew OSU Attacker Was Terror Recruitment Target, Let Him Into The U.S. Anyway
2016-12-16
[Daily Caller] Department of Homeland Security officials knew Ohio State University attacker Abdul Razak Ali Artan was a possible recruitment target of Islamic terrorists but granted him asylum anyway, along with his mother and six of his siblings, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley revealed in a letter sent Wednesday to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

While seeking asylum as refugees from Mogadishu, Somalia in 2013,
...that there is a term of art. Artan, his mother and siblings moved to Pakistan in 2007, where Artan eventually graduated from an advanced program at a top Islamabad high school. At some point his father got a job in Dubai, where apparently he remains.
Artan’s mother told immigration authorities that she feared persecution from al-Qaeda affiliate group al-Shabaab,
In Pakistan?!
and worried that Abdul and his siblings would be recruited by the terrorist organization if they remained in Somalia.
Must've happened in that fancy school in Islamabad. Unless it was in Columbus, Ohio, where there are lots of Somalis, because y'all left Somalia nine years ago, when our dead miscreant was only "nine".
That knowledge should have lead USCIS officials to "conduct additional questioning better understand ties to a group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in 2008." But the additional questioning, which the Committee describes as "common practice" in those situations, never happened.

Artan’s father, according to the letter, had been kidnapped by the terrorist group. According to the Committee, one of Abdul’s siblings did not travel to America with the rest of the family, for reasons left unclear.

Wash Times, same topic story: Chuck Grassley questions Obama’s asylum vetting of Ohio State attacker
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  #10 Its like our governments has declared war on us but their only goal is to snuggle up to jihadis and call us racists every time one of them goes on rampage.

Considering the degree to which the federal government has been infiltrated by Muslim brotherhood, converts and islamophiles; we are under attack. Going to have to be a purge.
Posted by: Grarong Spawn of the Heathen Rus2966   2016-12-16 14:46  

#15  "The Age of Fallibility that "the main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States." George Soros

In other words, he is bankrolling anyone who will tear down the U.S. and promote a one world order.
Posted by: Pearl Hupomorong1598   2016-12-16 13:39  

#14  I realize they are using them as mercenaries, but they don't really seem to have an end goal in mind...or maybe I can't see it because I'm sane and realize that the ultimate effect will eventually be civil war and a pogram that will be the exact opposite of what they want when they drive Americans too far. It's not nice but hey, it's on their on head.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2016-12-16 13:10  

#13  It's not like any of them bombed a federal office building. That'll get you a swift death penalty and allow the government to broad brush an entire race as a preeminent threat to their power.

Sociopaths operating under the shield of religious fervor?
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-12-16 12:37  

#12  It seems as long as knife attacks don't happen to them or their families, or anywhere around the Beltway, they're ok with it.
Posted by: Raj   2016-12-16 12:05  

#11  Jihadis are the mercenaries that the government is using to fight their war against us.....think Hessians.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-16 11:58  

#10  Its like our governments has declared war on us but their only goal is to snuggle up to jihadis and call us racists every time one of them goes on rampage.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2016-12-16 11:19  

#9  Almost like they were getting ready for a false flag operation....
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-12-16 09:13  

#8  It's not like any of them bombed a federal office building. That'll get you a swift death penalty and allow the government to broad brush an entire race as a preeminent threat to their power.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad   2016-12-16 07:46  

#7  Suckurity. These staffare they all ex microsoft?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2016-12-16 07:32  

#6  DHS stickin it to Tha Man!
Posted by: newc   2016-12-16 03:32  

#5  In response to what might be done, please see 'magpie's' comment #9 from yesterday.

Link
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-16 03:07  

#4  It's easier to keep an eye on them while they're here, of course. Isn't it obvious?
Posted by: gorb   2016-12-16 03:06  

#3  So just what is it you say you do here?
Posted by: newc   2016-12-16 02:44  

#2  and six of his siblings

I'd watch siblings for revengeTM.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-12-16 02:09  

#1  There appears to be something of a pattern here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-16 02:02  

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